As I’m sure several people noticed, we had an outage this morning. The cause was the aussie.zone SSL certificate expiring.
That’s not supposed to happen, certbot and letsencrypt are supposed to handle that renewal automatically without bothering a human. I’ll add some sort of monitor on the certbot log to look for errors and notify me going forward.
It also occurred to me that while my unofficial policy in the event of an outage is to make a post from my aus.social mastodon account, I haven’t exactly communicated this to anyone. Nor have I communicated that I’ll get a notification pretty quickly if you @ me there.
If the site is down for more than 10 minutes and I haven’t made a post on aus.social about it, I probably don’t know about the outage. Feel free to ping me on mastodon to bring it to my attention.
I had noticed and spent some time creating a backup account on a new instance that i was thinking about doing anyway due to the possible effect of ID verification (I refuse to upload my ID to the webz).
Thanks for being such a great admin, moderator and host of aussie.zone, you are doing such a great job.
Unable to access our zone of aussie, we were all distraught beyond description and unable to feed or bathe ourselves 💔
I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.
Booo!!
Thanks for keeping the server running so reliably that this event was actually notable.
Cheers for all your work with the server!
Thanks for the update.
I really should get back on Mastodon…
if mastodon had a shared block list where i could block all american politics
Thanks for keeping AZ running and keeping me entertained between bluey episodes.
Out of interest, when outage happened i noticed some sites don’t see AZ any more.
I’m not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they’re in error regarding us being offline. I can’t even get the second link to show instances to find us.
